The Team

Jean has extensive experience in external affairs, communication and media in the mining sector, which included work on several divestments and acquisitions. She also represented Rio Tinto, Barrick Gold and Placer Dome on the Chamber of Mines; BLSA (Business Leadership South Africa); WEF Africa; NEPAD Business Forum (NBF); African Union; Mining Indaba and various other forums and conferences, as well as at wide-ranging national, African and international government meetings and engagements.

Bianca is a qualified Skills Development Facilitator, Assessor and Moderator. She currently words as a freelance facilitator for training institutions on various soft skills and behavioural programmes, and runs various personal development workshops and seminars.

Siza has over ten years’ experience in the mining and education sectors, which has given her exposure through working on projects in various parts of Africa. These include South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana, Mali, Guinea, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Namibia. This experience has taught her to be adaptable and work with people from different cultures and diverse languages, and in remote locations. She possesses a broad range of leadership, management, commercial, technical (mining-exploration), strategy formulation, stakeholder management, communications, facilitation and project management skills.

Biffy van Rooyen is a freelance strategic communication specialist, with expertise in communication planning, (including events), brand development, social media, and writing and editing for various media. She is based in Pretoria.

Koffi is a senior lecturer at the Wits School of Governance, where he teaches strategic government communications and scenario planning. He is the former director of the Unilever Mandela Rhodes Academy for Communications and Marketing (UMRA), a Storyteller, Social Commentator, Business Strategist, Author and Futurist.

He specialises in information communications technologies for development and telecommunications adapted to environmental issues in Africa.